Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Laboratory Manual in General Science
This Laboratory Manual is designed to accompany my General Science. The experiments contained in the manual, with the exception of those on Specific Heat, Heats of Fusion and Vaporization, and a few others, can be easily and intelligently made by the average pupil of the second year high school, since little or no mathematics is involved.
The elaborate and quantitative experiments required for college preparation have been entirely omitted. Only such experiments are given as will prove of interest and benefit to the pupils whose formal education ends with the high school.
It is my experience that five periods per week for one year will suffice to cover the ground indicated in General Science and most of the ground indicated in the Laboratory Manual. If there is not time to make all the experiments. Experiments 8 and 14 and others of similar detail may be omitted.
It is hoped that the heterogeneous nature of the experiments will offer something of interest and help to every pupil, and, in addition, will induce some few to take up a study of theoretical science, whether in physics or chemistry.
The metric and English systems of measurement are used indiscriminately according to convenience.
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